Residents in Earl Shilton are being consulted on plans to build a 350-home residential estate near the town centre - in addition to the 1,700 houses earmarked by the SUE on its borders.

A public exhibition on the proposals from JG Properties Ltd is being held between 2pm and 7pm on Tuesday December 9 at the Methodist Church in Wood Street.

People will get the chance to see an outline of the development for open fields at Westfield Farm, north of the Health Lane Medical Centre.

Up to 350 homes are proposed, as well as employment starter units, open space and landscaping with access off a widened, priority junction at Heath Lane, giving scope for improved car parking at the GP surgery and the existing sports and recreational facilities.

JG Properties, through agents, the Planning and Design Group (P&DG) hope to submit a formal planning application to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council before the end of the year and are keen to obtain community feedback before making the bid.

For those unable to attend the exhibition in person a website will go live on Monday at www.planningconsultationonline.co.uk

Earlier this year P&DG were in communication with the borough council airing concerns the Earl Shilton and Barwell Area Action Plan (on which the SUE is based) would not achieve the increase and improvements in housing, infrastructure, economic growth and regeneration it was intended to deliver and highlighting a Core Strategy number of 2,000 - not 1,300 - new homes for Earl Shilton over the next 11 years.

The SUE now includes a scheme for around 400 homes off Mill Lane on land controlled by Persimmon Homes as well as the main development of 1,300 houses off Clickers Lane.

Tory councillor Janice Richards said: “I would like to know more about the development, so I will visit the exhibition and talk to residents on the issues as it is their town and as a borough and county councillor for Earl Shilton I will be there as their representative to listen to all sides.

“I am concerned it seems to be just one development after another, and as I have always pointed out, my biggest worry is whether the infrastructure will cope.

“The SUE with the very large amount of proposed houses does not seem to have taken that into account, and the planning of it seems to me to have been done on the back of a fag packet.”